"course, competing against the Queen's own horse Aureole, and sweeping past the Aga Khan III's horse, Shikampur, into first place with just two furlongs (402 m) remaining. The long-awaited win was accompanied by thunderous cheers from the frenzied crowd. Winning The Derby was undoubtedly Sir Gordon's crowning victory, and he was promptly summoned from the winners' enclosure to be congratulated by the Queen. Sir Gordon's riding career ended in 1954 following a pelvis injury, but he continued to indulge his passion for racing, by becoming a horse trainer and advisor. As a trainer his main owners were the partnership of"
"Sir Gordon was able to. Richards' total of 4,870 winners is still a British Record. He also holds the record for the most consecutive winners ridden; 12 (half at a night meeting). He was British flat racing Champion Jockey a record 26 times. In 1999, the Racing Post listed him at number 17 in their list of 100 Makers of 20th century horse racing and number 1 in their list of the Top 50 jockeys of the 20th century. Gordon Richards Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 – 10 November 1986) was an English jockey. He was the British flat"
"Nicky Richards Nicholas Gordon Richards (born 25 February 1956 in Alnwick, Northumberland) is a British racehorse trainer specialising mainly in National Hunt racing. He is based at stables at Greystoke, near Penrith, Cumbria, England He was British champion amateur flat jockey in 1973 and subsequently worked as assistant trainer to his father, Gordon W. Richards. He took over the training licence when his father died in 1998. He saddled a winner with his first runner, Better Times Ahead, at Carlisle Racecourse in October 1998. The most successful horse he has trained to date is Monet's Garden, winner of the Ascot"
"Gordon W. Richards Gordon W. Richards (7 September 1930 – 29 September 1998) was a British racehorse trainer specialising mainly in National Hunt racing. He trained two winners of the Grand National with Lucius in 1978 and Hallo Dandy in 1984. He was born in Bath, Somerset and was apprenticed as a flat jockey to Jack Waugh. His middle initial, W., was allegedly inserted in his name by an official at Salisbury Racecourse at the start of his career to differentiate him from the champion flat jockey Sir Gordon Richards. The W. was apparently taken from Waugh's surname. Becoming too"
"retired champion racehorse whose victories included the Westbury Stakes (later re-named the Gordon Richards Stakes) and the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park. Most successful horse (2 wins): Leading jockey (6 wins): Leading trainer (10 wins): The 1981 running was abandoned because of a waterlogged course. Brigadier Gerard Stakes The Brigadier Gerard Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile 1 furlong and 209 yards (), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May"
"his classic race victories being the 1973 Derby on Morston, two 1,000 Guineas - Waterloo (1972) and Mrs McArdy (1977) - and two St. Legers on Cantelo (1959) and Julio Mariner (1978). Other big race victories included the Lincoln (three times), Northumberland Plate, Magnet Cup, November Handicap, Nunthorpe Stakes, July Cup, King's Stand Stakes and the 1967 Ayr Gold Cup on Farm Walk. He was identifiable to racing fans by a toothy grin. He retired in 1986 after riding 2,593 winners in Britain. Only eight jockeys have ridden more winners in Britain as of 2017, and Hide's total is the"
"Gordon Richards Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 – 10 November 1986) was an English jockey. He was the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times and is often considered the world's greatest ever jockey. He remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. Gordon Richards was raised in the Shropshire village of Donnington Wood (now part of Telford), the son of a Shropshire coal miner. His father reared several pit ponies at their home, and it was in this environment that Sir Gordon fostered his love of the equestrian. He rode the ponies bareback from an early age,"
"Stakes in 1974, and from this point it was held in April. The race was given its present title in 1987. It was renamed in memory of Sir Gordon Richards, a famous jockey who died the previous year. The Gordon Richards Stakes is part of a two-day meeting which features both flat and jump races. Other events at the meeting include the Bet365 Gold Cup, the Celebration Chase, the Sandown Classic Trial and the Sandown Mile. Most successful horse (2 wins): Leading jockey (4 wins): Leading trainer (9 wins): The 1973 running took place at Kempton Park.<br> The 1974 race"
"the champion to stud. Scurlogue Champ achieved equal stardom by winning a second BBC Television Trophy and continued to amuse crowds with his remarkable running style, that off letting the field gain a significant lead before winning from a seemingly lost position. His career came to an end on 14 August when he finished lame at Nottingham in a 754 metre event and was retired. Ken Peckham's black dog ended with a record of 51 wins from 63 races and 20 track records. The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) released the annual returns, with totalisator turnover at £66,192,736 and attendances"
"with Posada in 1988 and trained Ruling to finish third in two editions of the Champion Hurdle. His last top-class performer was Tout Seul who won the Dewhurst Stakes in 2002. Johnson Houghton announced his retirement in 2006 after a 45-year training career which saw him win over 1,200 races. Johnson Houghton married Gaie Goldsmith, the daughter of a trainer. His daughter Eve took over his stable on his retirement. Fulke Johnson Houghton Richard Fulke Johnson Houghton (born 1940) is a British retired Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He trained over 1,200 winners in a career which lasted from 1961 until 2006."
"Spring of that year,after dueling from a long way out with the eventual winner, Bobsline. The race was considered one of the most exciting of the time. The most supportive patron of the yard was the Edinburgh Woollen Mill,later becoming Ashleybank Investments. Richards trained many good horses for these owners. They commonly named their animals using 'Tartan' as the first word in the name. One of them, Tartan Tailor,won the Supreme Novices Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. He died from cancer in Carlisle, Cumbria and was succeeded as trainer at Greystoke by his son, Nicky Richards. Gordon W. Richards Gordon"
"900 races in the UK - one of only five riders to achieve the milestone that year. On 31 August 2015 Turner announced that she would retire from riding at the end of the season. She came out of retirement in 2018. In between she was a regular contributor to ITV racing. Turner was born two miles from Nottingham Racecourse in north Nottinghamshire, daughter of Kate and Richard Turner. Her first ride in public was on Markellis at Southwell on 27 March 2000. Turner never finished the race; the horse broke a leg and died. Her first winning ride was"
"£64,894 with a string of 61 horses. He died in 2003 from multiple sclerosis, leaving a £1.2 million stud farm, the 77 acre Collin Stud, near Newmarket, Suffolk. After a court battle, this was inherited by his daughters Grace and Emma. It was ruled that a will he made when paralysed, leaving the stud to Robin Sharp, manager, and Malcolm Bryson, head groom, was invalid. Neil Adam (racehorse trainer) Neil Marshall Adam (1932 - 2003) was a British racehorse trainer. He started training with a string of 14 horses at Racecourse Farm, Bescaby, near Melton Mowbray in 1975. In 1976,"
"he won the Stewards' Cup in 1982. He was nicknamed ""Dandy"" after the actress Dandy Nichols. Nicholls retired in 1993 after riding 421 winners and began a training career at a stables at Sessay, sending out his first winner in December of the same year. He gained his nickname of “the Sprint King” with victories in several of the sport's major Group 1 races and repeat victories in top handicap races including six wins in the Ayr Gold Cup, three in the Stewards' Cup and four in the Epsom Dash. His final winner was Sovereign Debt in 2017 and he"
"""A Century of Champions"", based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Four Course a ""poor"" winner of the 1000 Guineas. Four Course was retired from racing to become a broodmare but died of tetanus at Cloghran Stud in Ireland before she produced any foals. Four Course Four Course (1928 – 1932) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She was one of the best two-year-old fillies of her generation in England when she won three of her four races, namely the July Stakes, Richmond Stakes and Gimcrack Stakes. In the following spring she won the 1000 Guineas"
"still one race where a win had always eluded him: The Epsom Derby. In 1942 he won 4 of the 5 'Classics' on horses, but still the big Derby win he craved remained out of his grasp. The 1953 Derby occurred on a week of great national, and personal celebration for Richards himself, as he became the first jockey to receive a knighthood. This time Sir Gordon rode Pinza, a huge horse for a flat-thoroughbred at 16 hands high, and he rode a terrific race. Pinza was in second position through much of the one and half mile (2414 m)"
"was a dead-heat and has joint winners. Gordon Richards Stakes The Gordon Richards Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile, 1 furlong and 209 yards at Sandown Park in late April. The event was established in 1963, and it was originally called the Westbury Stakes. It was initially held in late May or early June. The Westbury Stakes continued to be staged in May or June until 1973. That year's edition took place at Kempton Park. Its date was"
"not to win another classic until he was in his forties, and his career at this time was punctuated by only the occasional big race success, such as Irish Elegance in the 1918 July Cup. Things began to change by the end of the 1920s, and in 1930 he was involved in a neck-and-neck battle with reigning champion Gordon Richards for the Jockeys' Championship. The battle went down to the last day of the season, when Fox rode two winners to Richards' one to win the title 129 winners to 128. In 1934, now towards the end of his career,"
"in the 1964–65 season. His biggest win came in the Whitbread Gold Cup on Mill House in 1967. As a trainer he was one of the leading trainers in National Hunt racing during the 1980s and 1990s. He won the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Charter Party in 1988, the King George VI Chase with Barton Bank in 1993 and the Queen Mother Champion Chase with Viking Flagship in 1994 and 1995. He retired in 1999. In 2008 an extra race was added to the Cheltenham Festival named the David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle in honour of Nicholson. David Nicholson (horse racing)"
"for a fourth time in 2013 with 235 winners, a record total and retired having saddled the winners of 4,193 races in Britain and overseas in a training career spanning forty-three years. His total of winners is a record for a British-based trainer. Hannon trained horses for HRH The Queen. His son Richard was instrumental in bringing in new owners including Sheikh Hamdan, Andrew Tinkler, Sir Robert Ogden, Sir Alex Ferguson and Sheikh Fahad Al Thani. Hannon was honoured as champion trainer in 1992, 2010 and 2011. Richard was awarded The Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit in 2010 for his"
"horse racing. Cheltenham Festival (31) Major Nationals Other Notable Races † A British Horse Racing record for most winners ridden in a season by a jockey (flat or jumps), beating Sir Gordon Richards' long-standing record of 269 winners set in 1947 Reference groups Tony McCoy Sir Anthony Peter McCoy, OBE (born 4 May 1974), commonly known as AP McCoy or Tony McCoy, is a Northern Irish former horse racing jockey. Based in Ireland and the UK, McCoy rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional. He stands 1.78"
"his view that the horse had been under-rated by Timeform, and that his correct rating should have been closer to 130. Sasse also pointed out that the colt was never able to show his best form on firm ground ""as he turned out his front feet like Charlie Chaplin"". Roland Gardens was retired from racing as a four-year-old and exported to become a breeding stallion in South Africa. The best of his offspring was Enchanted Garden who won the Natal Oaks and the South African Oaks and was named South African Horse of the Year 1986. His last known foals"
"Darling, and that season, with 259 victories under his belt, he broke the record for the greatest number of wins in a year, a record he was to keep for nearly 50 years (he broke his own record in 1947 when riding 269 winners). The following year he set a world record winning twelve consecutive races including riding all six winners at Chepstow on 4 October. Achievement followed achievement, with Richards winning the 1947 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse aboard Tudor Minstrel by 8 lengths, the largest winning margin in the race since 1900. Despite these huge successes, there was"
"retired from training shortly after citing financial problems. He trained the winners of 1,269 races. Nicholls died in June 2017, aged 61. Great Britain France David Nicholls (racehorse trainer) David 'Dandy' Nicholls (1956–2017) was a British jockey and racehorse trainer who competed in flat racing. He was particularly noted for his success training horses who raced over five and six furlongs and was nicknamed “the Sprint King”. Nicholls was born in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, in 1956, and spent his early racing career as an apprentice jockey in the stables of Deryck Bastiman at Wetherby, riding his first winner in 1973."
"of the Grand National on the following Monday, as for his winning the event. Lord Gyllene died at the age of 28 on 12 December 2016. Lord Gyllene Lord Gyllene (10 November 1988 – 12 December 2016) was a New Zealand-bred racehorse whose greatest victory came in the 1997 Grand National at Aintree. He was trained by Steve Brookshaw for owner Sir Stanley Clarke CBE and ridden by Tony Dobbin. Lord Gyllene was retired by his owner in 2001 due to injury. He had a race record in the UK of 13 runs: won 4, second 5 and third once,"
"He retired from riding after a bad fall at Worcester in 1987. His most notable victory as a rider came when Another Dolly was awarded the victory in the 1980 Queen Mother Champion Chase after the disqualification of Chinrullah for failing a dope test. Morshead also gained Cheltenham Festival successes on Gaye Chance in the 1981 Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle and the 1984 Stayers' Hurdle. He rode over 400 winners in a British career lasting 14 seasons. After retiring as a jockey, Morshead developed a career in racecourse administration. He was appointed clerk of the course at Perth Racecourse in"
"Stakes at Newmarket but finished unplaced behind Rustom Pasha. He ended the year with earnings of £11,616, making him the second most financially successful horse of the season. Singapore was kept in training as a four-year-old with the Ascot Gold Cup as his main objective. The 1931 Gold Cup on 18 June proved to be a highly controversial race which saw Singapore (ridden by Richards) beaten a short head by Trimdon after being barged into the rails by the winner inside the final furlong. Trimdon's rider Joe Childs had dropped his whip and was unable to prevent his mount from"
"Gordon Richards Stakes The Gordon Richards Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile, 1 furlong and 209 yards at Sandown Park in late April. The event was established in 1963, and it was originally called the Westbury Stakes. It was initially held in late May or early June. The Westbury Stakes continued to be staged in May or June until 1973. That year's edition took place at Kempton Park. Its date was switched with that of the Brigadier Gerard"
"and Aintree Hurdle, although he again ran disappointingly in the Champion Hurdle. He failed to win when campaigned over longer distances in 2013/2014 but began his next season by winning the Grand Prix d'Automne in France. He continued to compete in Graded hurdle races, winning the Rendlesham Hurdle in February 2017 and was retired the following year. He won 11 of his 35 races and earned over £900,000 in prize money. Zarkandar, a bay horse with a white star, was bred in Ireland by the Aga Khan, as were both his parents. His sire Azamour was trained by John Oxx"
"last flight but could make no impression from that point and finished twenty-seven and a half lengths distant in fifth. This proved to be Twin Oaks' only attempt at the National and went on to win the Tommy Whittle Chase in December before being retired after a poor run in a Greenalls Gold Cup in February 1993. Cool Ground was bidding to become only the second horse ever to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National in the same season. In the absence of regular rider, Adrian Maguire, Martin Lynch took the ride and was in contention in the"
"the Gordon Richards Stakes over ten furlongs at Sandown Park Racecourse on 23 April. Ridden by Mick Kinane, she started 8/11 favourite but never recovered from a poor start and finished fourth of the eight runners behind the five-year-old gelding Weightless. In the 2004 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Quiff was rated the third best three-year-old filly behind Ouija Board and Attraction, the best three-year-old filly over 2700 metres+ (Extended Distance) and the 57th best racehorse in the world of any age or sex. She was also nominated for the Cartier Champion Three-year-old Filly award. Quiff was retired from racing to"
"champion jockey Gordon Richards, he won at odds of 7/4, beating the future Derby winner Straight Deal. In July, he won the Great Bradley Stakes, beating a single opponent. Nasrullah was then rested until the autumn, when he ran in Britain's most prestigious race for two-year-olds, the six-furlong Middle Park Stakes. In a closely run contest, he finished second, beaten a neck by the filly Ribbon. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the season's best two-year-olds, Nasrullah was given a weight of 136 lb, making him the top-rated colt, a pound behind the filly Lady Sybil. Before the start"
"Ground gave him a Cheltenham Gold Cup victory. Balding was instrumental in the careers of jockeys Adrian Maguire and Tony McCoy, providing them both with their first jobs in England. He was based at Fyfield near Andover, Hampshire and finally retired on the final day of the 2004 flat season, having trained over 2,000 winners. On 12 December 2006 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Jockey Club and was for a time a Director of the British Horseracing Authority He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for"